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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lardiner, apparently an alteration of larder (“larder”) after gardiner (“gardener”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌlardiˈneːr/, /ˈlardinər/
Noun
lardener (rare)
- lardiner (overseer of a larder)
- (rare) larder (meat storehouse)
c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:Þ[ar]for þe men off þat countꝛe / ffor ſwa fele þar mellit wer / Callit it þe Dowglas laꝛdner- So people from that region, / because so many were jumbled there, / called it "the Douglas larder".
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